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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose in cautious trading Friday after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dozen state or county agencies have parted ways with tens of thousands of dollars in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has won an emphatic victory in a special election for a…

By JON GAMBRELL, JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday…

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press HOMS, Syria (AP) — Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan authorities will start providing money to families whose homes were destroyed in an…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — A quiet ceremony has been attended by about 200 people in a small town in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key…

By ASHOK SHARMA and SIBI ARASU Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CAÑON CITY, Colo. (AP) — The awful smell seeped from a neglected building in a small Colorado town for days,…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants…

By RAF CASERT and IAIN SULLIVAN Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European Union leaders are acknowledging that just as aspiring members must…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge says two Michigan defendants accused of participating in a fake elector scheme…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers added 336,000 jobs in September, an unexpectedly robust gain…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire in a six-story residential building has left at least six dead and another 38 injured in Mumbai, India’s financial and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo is constantly recreating itself. These days, multibillion-dollar redevelopment projects are…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico environmental regulators on Thursday finalized a 10-year permit extension at the nation’s only underground…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have reached a four-year deal with Scripps Sports and will become…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says Lebanon faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with nearly…